Silence is golden?  No word yet if Rangers are still in on Ohtani  —  Shohei Ohtani started telling MLB teams Sunday night that he will not consider them for his jump from Japan, and sources with those teams started telling national baseball reporters.  —  Conspicuously absent from the nay column …

Tampa Bay Rays told they are out of running for Japanese two-way star Shohei Ohtani  —  The Rays got the disappointing word Sunday night that they were eliminated from the competition to sign Japanese two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani.The Rays had been hoping their commitment to letting h

Shohei Ohtani turns down Yankees, Red Sox, per GMs  —  The Babe Ruth of Japan, Shohei Ohtani, will not be playing in the House that Ruth Built.  Nor will he end up where the Babe began his career.  —  New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman informed reporters Sunday night …

The Yankees' questions Aaron Boone will need to answer  —  “He stole.  He slept.  He was rude to the customers.  There goes the best employee a convenience store ever had.”  —  Joe Girardi bristled — at umpires, at media questions, at inept security guards — as regularly as some people floss.

Mark Teixeira says Aaron Boone the right guy to manage Yankees young stars  —  Mark Teixeira played eight seasons under Joe Girardi with the Yankees, and he worked this past year with Girardi's incoming replacement as manager, Aaron Boone, at ESPN.  —  The former Yankee first baseman …

Padres GM A.J. Preller gets extension through 2022 season  —  San Diego Padres executive vice president/general manager A.J. Preller received a three-year extension on Sunday.  —  Preller is now under contract with San Diego through the 2022 season.  —  “A.J. is a tireless worker who possesses …

Heyman |  Skepticism remains that Stanton would go to Cardinals  —  A contingent of St. Louis Cardinals power brokers traveled to Los Angeles and — like the San Francisco Giants — will make their case that Miami Marlins superstar slugger Giancarlo Stanton should consider playing for their team for the next 10 years.